- Daily Sustainable Life -

SISUM Workshop

-Student Initiative for a SustainableUniversity Maastricht

-stimulate environmental and social responsibility on both the university and the student side

-incorporate sustainability into daily life

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Ecological Footprint

• metaphor used to depict the amount of land and water area a human population needs – to provide the resources required to support itself – and to absorb its wastes

• used to explore the sustainability of individual lifestyles, goods and services, organisations, industry sectors, neighbourhoods, cities, regions and nations

> an indicator of environmental sustainability

Total Biocapacity

Total Biocapacity

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Contraction & Convergence

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